Socialist Party Notebook

25 April 2017

Birkenhead born Peter Taaffe, general secretary of the Socialist Party, returned to his hometown on Monday 24th April to speak about his new book - From Militant to the Socialist Party

12 April 2017

Stop press - NHS workers' snap walkout - full victory confirmed

Domestic staff at the Royal London Hospital have had their victory over privateer bosses' attacks on their breaks confirmed, writes Socialist Party reporters.

4 April 2017

Union day of action slams benefit sanctions

Benefit sanctions punish people for being unemployed. That's why Unite Community - a trade union section for unemployed people - organised a national day of action against benefit sanctions on 30 March

3 April 2017

Meetings on the 1917 Russian Revolution

31 March 2017

Hackney children's inclusion unit forced to strike

Labour authorities often claim that their cuts are kinder than the Tories'. But what could be worse than Hackney Labour council trying to slash in half the small but vital Early Years part of the the Inclusion and Specialist Support Team?

30 March 2017

Video: Jobstown not guilty! Irish Socialist TD Paul Murphy speaks

Outside the Criminal Court (CCJ) this morning

24 March 2017

Obituary: Brenda Proctor 1950-2017

Brenda played a heroic role in building the miners' wives support group at Florence pit

24 March 2017

Fujitsu strikes: Manchester and Warrington

Workers at Fujitsu were on strike again today across the country in their fight against job losses and pay cuts

22 March 2017

Livingstone's smear of Militant

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone has accused Militant, now the Socialist Party, of bigoted political positions. Socialist Party deputy general secretary Hannah Sell demands the right to reply

22 March 2017

New larger, merged teaching union

College staff are balloting for action over redundancies and reorganisation, photo (public domain)

21 March 2017

Leeds: Foundation workers strike back

With a sea of fluttering flags, around 50 striking workers at third sector company Foundation, that provides support to vulnerable adults, made themselves unmissable as TV cameras broadcast coverage of their dispute

17 March 2017

Fujitsu picket line in Wakefield

Workers at Fujitsu Wakefield took part in their second day of strike action as part of the ongoing national dispute at Fujitsu over job security, pensions, the living wage and union recognition

15 March 2017

Indyref 2: SNP fire the starting gun

The Scottish parliament will vote next week in favour of triggering a second independence referendum

7 March 2017

North Ayrshire Labour council: No-cuts budget?

North Ayrshire Labour-run council has claimed it has implemented a "no cuts budget" for 2017/18.

6 March 2017

Mark Women's Day in red on social media

28 February 2017

Sheffield meeting against cuts

Meeting calls on council to sack Amey as well as Veolia

27 February 2017

RMT plans protest against 'driver only' Merseyrail trains

On 7 March 2017 at 9.30am the RMT union will be staging a protest in Derby Square, Liverpool, against the introduction of 'driver only operated' trains on Merseyrail

27 February 2017

Grantham: 1,000 march for reopening of A&E

On Saturday, over 1,000 people marched through the centre of Grantham, in the rain, to express their anger and disgust at the continued closure of the A&E department at Grantham hospital

27 February 2017

Leeds: Protest against tip stealing

Unite activists demonstrated outside Malmaison hotels to fight against tip stealing and workplace bullying

14 February 2017

Wallasey Labour remains suspended despite collapse of allegations

The allegations of homophobic abuse, bullying and intimidation levelled by Angela Eagle and her anonymous and cowardly supporters against Wallasey constituency Labour party (CLP) have now collapsed due to the fact that there was absolutely no credible evidence

10 February 2017

'No-cuts budgets' article on Independent's website

7 February 2017

Housing: Irresponsibility becomes reality

'Councils will be ordered to build thousands more homes' is the message. I immediately thought I'd missed the election of a Corbyn-led government that was implementing a basic socialist policy. No.

3 February 2017

Response to Derek Hatton's criticism of Corbyn over Brexit vote

Derek Hatton's criticism of Jeremy Corbyn's proposed support for triggering Brexit is off the mark (FT 1/2/17), writes Tony Mulhearn

23 January 2017

CWI website marking 1917 Russian Revolution

The Committee for a Workers' International (CWI) has launched a website dedicated to commemorating and celebrating the 1917 Russian Revolution

22 January 2017

Kshama Sawant responds to Trump's speech

19 January 2017

Snap elections called to Stormont Assembly

Northern Ireland goes to the polls, for the second time within a year, in snap elections to decide the make-up of its Stormont Assembly, on 2 March

12 January 2017

Fracking protest in Sherwood Forest

On 7th January, with only a week's notice, over 300 people came together to protest against plans by chemical giant INEOS to carry out seismic surveys in Sherwood Forest - a move which marks a clear intent to frack in the area

22 December 2016

Bulletin of Socialist Party members in Usdaw

20 December 2016

Defending Xmas strikes: NSSN on Sky News

Chair of the National Shop Stewards Network, Rob Williams, was interviewed on Sky News

19 December 2016

Fifth anniversary of Zhanaozen massacre

The anniversary on Friday 16th December of the Zhanaozen massacre in Kazakhstan in 2011 was marked around the world by protests to embassies and within Kazakhstan itself by groups of activists coming onto the squares and being surrounded by anxious police

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